The Washington Wizards got blasted 103-84 by the Phoenix Suns to launch their 2025 Summer League schedule Friday night.<\/p>\n
Summer league always begins with a lot of optimism, and this year was no different. Those die-hard Wizards fans who stayed up late (and those that made it all the way to Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas, NV), and those who tuned in to Kevin Broom\u2019s Playback, were rewarded by a nice show of the young talent the Wizards have slowly amassed \u2014 at least for a little while. The ultimate result was a downer as the young talent underperformed.<\/p>\n
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The Wizards Summer League roster, which includes seven (7!) first-round picks just from the previous two NBA Drafts, got its first test against the Suns.<\/p>\n
Washington\u2019s top pick this year (sixth overall) Tre Johnson, 21st pick Will Riley and 43rd pick Jamir Watkins saw their first action in a Wizards uniform. They were joined by 2024 first-round picks Alex Sarr, Bub Carrington, AJ Johnson, Kyshawn George and Dillon Jones.<\/p>\n
The Wizards held their ground for the first quarter, but lost each of the remaining three periods. When your team shoots 25% from deep and allows the opponents to shoot 40%, you usually lose.<\/p>\n
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Kyshawn George had 24 points in 32 minutes with 10 from 18 from the field and 3 from 9 from deep.<\/p>\n
Fresh from the draft, Tre Johnson scored 18 in just 28 minutes, including 3 from 5 from deep, and some tough shot-making inside the arc.<\/p>\n
Alex Sarr had 15 points and four boards in 31 minutes, though a chunk of his production came in garbage time.<\/p>\n
The game was high in entertainment value with 7-2 Suns center Khaman Maluach seemingly determined to showcase every skill he believes he has and wasn\u2019t able to show at Duke. The big man hit 1-6 from three-point range.<\/p>\n
Suns second round pick (41st overall) Koby Brea knocked down 4-5 from three-point range en route to 19 points. Brea was an elite collegiate shooter. He hit 43.4% from deep over five NCAA seasons (730 attempts), including shooting 49.8% on threes in 2023-24 at Dayton (classified as his second junior season).<\/p>\n
The Wizards next play the Nets on Sunday, again in Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards got blasted 103-84 by the Phoenix Suns to launch their 2025 Summer League schedule Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[4008,979,7,2644,1256,3531,958,3535,6333,6,671,472,13711,15722,952,682,468,3892,982,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-165206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-aj-johnson","9":"tag-alex-sarr","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-bub-carrington","12":"tag-dillon-jones","13":"tag-jamir-watkins","14":"tag-khaman-maluach","15":"tag-koby-brea","16":"tag-kyshawn-george","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nets","19":"tag-phoenix-suns","20":"tag-summer-league","21":"tag-thomas-mack-center","22":"tag-tre-johnson","23":"tag-washington","24":"tag-washington-wizards","25":"tag-washingtonwizards","26":"tag-will-riley","27":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114839373978395741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}